"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."